At its core Archaeo-rock is a movement to wake people from the relentless march of the cult of the individual and attempt to reintroduce people to the sense of community once felt when our ancestors created something magical.
Like most art forms, archaeo-rock is right up itself. “The word archaeo is hard to spell” says Henderson, “so we hope the uneducated cannot find us”.
“Its exclusive” continues Ager, “people won’t really get it and that’s ok, because we aren’t very good, so the less people who hear us the better. It makes us feel exclusive rather than feeling any worse about our lives”
The band created Archaeo-rock to address the lack of representation of ancient historic matters in modern music.
People know that Taylor Swift likes to shake it off and yet they do not know about the Antikythera Mechanism which is daft. “Our ancestors didn’t develop agriculture and build henge monuments so that boys could sing like girls and dance like they’ve shat themselves” snaps Ager.
Archaeo-rock brings us face to face with our distant past and confronts us with the stories that we should all take time to consider more deeply. Should we thank clever people in the past for inventing methods for calculating time or should they be despised? Should we work harder to become wardens of the land, and what is so wrong with a polytheistic belief system?
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